FC-45 Mites as newly emerging disease pathogens in rodents and human beings

Bartonella spp. as emerging human pathogens.

Members of the genus Bartonella (formerly Rochalimaea) were virtually unknown to modern-day clinicians and microbiologists until they were associated with opportunistic infections in AIDS patients about 6 years ago. Since that time, Bartonella species have been associated with cat scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, and a variety of other disease syndromes. Clinical presentation of infecti...

Bartonella as Emerging Pathogens

5 International Conference on Bartonella as Emerging Pathogens: The combined meeting had participants from around the world including Australia, Asia, Europe, Russia, China, and North and South America. There were 199 abstracts at the meeting. The majority presented data on Rickettsia, whereas 42 abstracts were Bartonella topics. Twelve Bartonella abstracts were concerned with human topics, 5 w...

Brucella Infection Causing Abortion in Human Beings

Emerging roles of pathogens in Alzheimer disease.

Chronic spirochetal infection can cause slowly progressive dementia, cortical atrophy and amyloid deposition in the atrophic form of general paresis. There is a significant association between Alzheimer disease (AD) and various types of spirochete (including the periodontal pathogen Treponemas and Borrelia burgdorferi), and other pathogens such as Chlamydophyla pneumoniae and herpes simplex vir...

Hantaviruses in the Americas and Their Role as Emerging Pathogens

The continued emergence and re-emergence of pathogens represent an ongoing, sometimes major, threat to populations. Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae) and their associated human diseases were considered to be confined to Eurasia, but the occurrence of an outbreak in 1993-94 in the southwestern United States led to a great increase in their study among virologists worldwide. Well over 40 hantavi...